The Chicago-based DJ collective Chances Dances has announced The Mark Aguhar Memorial Fund, an additional component of the Critical Fierceness Grant.
The fund is a grant specifically for women-identified or transfeminine artists of color. The Critical Fierceness Grant is a biannual grant for Chicago-based artists who identify themselves or their work as queer. The first grants were awarded in 2008, providing up to $500 to fine art and social-justice art projects.
The grant has two cycles with deadlines at the end of June and December. Download the application at www.chancesdances.org/fierceness.
Aguhar was a performer, art student and blogger who passed away earlier this year at age 24.
Read a profile of Aguhar at windycitytimes.com/lgbt/PASSAGES-Performance-artist-Mark-Aguhar-remembered/36925.html.